FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2025 
Contact: Jack Cardinal, jcardinal@communitycatalyst.org  

“The Senate just handed a death sentence to health care, but our movement remains more powerful than their greed.” 

“This devastating bill takes a wrecking ball to the ACA and guts Medicaid, all to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and wealthy corporations while saddling families with skyrocketing health care costs and medical debt,” said Mona Shah, Senior Director of Policy and Strategy at Community Catalyst. “It’s closing down the community health clinic to fund a yacht club. It’s taking away school lunches to pad the pocketbooks of finance bros.

“It terminates health care for 17 million people, including children, mothers, older adults, people with disabilities, and caregivers. It makes health care more expensive for everyone while doing nothing to rein in corporate greed. It will close down hospitals and maternity wards serving rural and low-income communities. 

“Imagine you’re a cancer patient who can no longer get access to treatment, or that you have to drive hours and pay more to get essential care – all so we could fund tax breaks for corporations. It didn’t and doesn’t need to be this way – it is a choice by people in power to make things worse and deepen health and economic injustice in this country – and that harms us all.”

The Big Bad Bill’s Immediate and Long-Term Devastation

The bill’s devastating attacks on health care will create immediate chaos and long-term destruction. These include: 

  • Increased Insurance Costs for All thanks to policies designed to boost the amount of uninsured people in the country who still need access to health care. 
  • Deliberate Enrollment Barriers that make it hard or impossible for people to buy and stay enrolled with health insurance. 
  • More Medical Debt for both the 17 million people who will lose insurance and people with insurance whose out-of-pocket costs will rise. 
  • Attacks on Parents and Kids through hindering access to maternal and reproductive care, the closing of maternity wards and rural hospitals, and lost coverage for children. 
  • Punitive and Unnecessary Work Requirements designed to ensure working families, caregivers and people with disabilities lose coverage. 
  • Harming Immigrant Families with restrictive eligibility that tears apart communities and threatens public health. 
The Real Winners: Corporations and the Ultra-Wealthy

The Big, Bad Bill pulls a reverse Robin Hood by initiating the largest transfer of wealth from low-income families to the ultra-wealthy in U.S. history. Nonpartisan analysis reports that the lowest-income households would lose $1,600 a year while the highest-income households would gain $12,000 a year.  

While families face reduced support, coverage termination and skyrocketing costs, the bill rewards the corporations and ultra-wealthy individuals who have profited from America’s broken health care system. This is the exact opposite of what constituents want, with a recent poll from HIT Strategies demonstrating widespread and bipartisan support for government efforts that rein in high costs and protect access to affordable care as a public good.

Moment for Accountability 

Community Catalyst and our 350+ partners are building power within the movement to make sure people know exactly what’s at stake and understand that this was a deliberate choice by Republican policymakers to line the pockets of corporate lobbyists over protecting people’s ability to see a doctor, near their home, and without going into debt. 

Take Action Now: The fight for health care continues. Contact your Representatives at 866-426-2631 and urge the House to reject this bill. 

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About Community Catalyst:

Community Catalyst is a national organization dedicated to building the power of people to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for all. We’re an experienced, trusted partner to organizations across the country, a change agent to policymakers at the local, state, and national level, and both an adversary and a collaborator to health systems in our efforts to advance health justice. We partner with local, state and national organizations and leaders to leverage and build power so that people are at the center of important decisions about health and health care, whether they are made by health care executives, in state houses, or on Capitol Hill. Together with partners, we’re building a powerful, united movement with a shared vision of and strategy for a health system accountable to all people. Learn more at www.communitycatalyst.org.